12.20.25 | Garage offers reliable S3 object storage outside datacenters, Mistral OCR 3, CSS Grid Lanes

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 20, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
• (01:21) - Mistral OCR 3
• (02:31) - CSS Grid Lanes
• (03:34) - TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
• (04:45) - 8-bit Boléro
• (05:47) - Graphite is joining Cursor
• (06:46) - LLM Year in Review
• (08:06) - Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
• (09:18) - Rust's Block Pattern
• (10:21) - Outro

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326984

Mistral OCR 3
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313390

CSS Grid Lanes
https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
https://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329038

8-bit Boléro
https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324702

Graphite is joining Cursor
https://cursor.com/blog/graphite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206

LLM Year in Review
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726

Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968

Rust's Block Pattern
https://notgull.net/block-pattern/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322391